JPH07115507B2 - Simple lettering tape making machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention is intended to easily produce a lettering tape capable of transferring a title or the like onto an index card of a cassette tape, a label of a video cassette, a spine cover of a document file, or the like. The present invention relates to a simple lettering tape manufacturing machine that can be used.

[Prior Art and Problems] This type of simple lettering tape manufacturing machine has never been available. If you mention it, there was a screen printing of reverse letters on a transparent film sheet on the market, and there was one that rubs the desired letters from the back side to the object to be printed when used by consumers. . However, according to this, not only the desired characters and symbols but also unnecessary characters and symbols are included, and in order to collect the necessary characters and symbols, it is necessary to buy many sheets. There was an uneconomical side. Furthermore, when using words, idioms, or simple sentences to use, it is necessary to select desired characters one by one and transfer them to the object to be printed. Therefore, the structure of words and the alignment between characters are required. It took a lot of time and labor, but the layout wasn't very good, which made it inconvenient.

On the other hand, although it is not of a type in which characters and symbols are transferred onto the object to be printed, there is already a label making machine capable of printing desired characters and symbols on a thick resin tape. However, the label produced by the production machine on this label is not good in appearance because the thick resin tape itself is attached to the object to be printed. There was a drawback that the resin tape was easily peeled off.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to easily edit a word, a idiom or the like, and to use the edited product as a transfer target. An object of the present invention is to provide a simple lettering tape making machine that makes a lettering tape that can be easily transferred.

[Means for Solving Problems] In order to achieve such an object, the easy lettering tape making machine of the present invention has an input section for inputting characters and symbols, and a character input by the input section. A memory unit that stores character data such as symbols, and based on the character data stored in the memory unit, a mirror image in which the shapes of characters and symbols indicated by the character data are inverted is printed on the lettering tape surface via the ink ribbon. And a printing means for printing.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The appearance of the simple lettering tape making machine according to the present invention is, as shown in FIG. 1, a size of a tabletop handy type that can be held by one hand. Then, on the surface of the case body 1, various input keys such as characters and symbols 2, 2, ...
Are arranged vertically and horizontally in a row, and a display unit 3 is also provided. On the other hand, the internal structure of this simple lettering tape making machine is, as shown in FIG. 2, provided with an IC substrate 4 in which a predetermined soft circuit is assembled in a case body 1, and is wound in a reel shape. The support shaft 6 so that the transparent film lettering tape 5 can be detached
The lettering tape 5 is attached to the tape feeding roller 7a, 7b so that the tip of the lettering tape 5 can be fed out from a take-out port 17 formed on one side of the case body 1.
A platen 8 and a thermal transfer type print head 9 are provided on the upper and lower surfaces of the lettering tape 5 while the lettering tape 5 is being fed, and the ink ribbon cassette 11 is attached and detached so that the ink ribbon 10 passes through the front end surface of the print head 9. It is installed freely. In addition, a micromotor 13 for moving the tape feed roller 7b and the take-up shaft 12 of the ink ribbon 10 in an interlocking manner is also provided in the case body 1.

Here, the outline of the soft circuit incorporated in the IC board 4 will be described. As is apparent from the electric control block diagram shown in FIG. 3, the CPU 14 and the memory unit 15 are provided, and the various input keys 2 are provided. , 2, ..., the display unit 3, and the print head 9 are connected to the CPU 14, respectively.

The lettering tape 5 may be a resin film of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, nylon, polyimide, Teflon, vinyl chloride, ABS, etc., and may be paper or metal foil. It is preferable that the opposite surface is coated with a release promoter such as silicon.

Further, a cutter 18 for separating the lettering tape 5 fed from the case body 1 is provided at the outlet 7. Further, the micromotor 13 is configured to automatically stop when the lettering tape 5 is fed from the case body 1 over a predetermined length by a limit switch (not shown).

However, in the simple lettering tape making machine configured as described above, when a desired character mechanism or the like is input by the operation of the input keys 2, 2, ..., The character or symbol is controlled under the control of the CPU 14. Character data such as is stored in the memory unit 15. At the same time, the characters and symbols are displayed on the display unit 3. Therefore, the user can create and edit a word, a idiom, or a simple sentence while checking the display content of the display unit 3. Then, if the user presses the print key 2a, which is one of the input keys, the lettering tape 5 is gradually fed out by the drive of the micromotor 13, and at the same time, the character data such as characters and symbols stored in the memory unit 15 is stored. Based on the above, a mirror image obtained by reversing the shape of the character or symbol indicated by the character data is printed by the print head 9 on the surface of the lettering tape 5 via the ink ribbon 10. In this case, as shown in FIG. 4, after printing the first row from the left end of the character data ((a) in the figure), the lettering tape 5 is moved by one row, and then the second row is printed. By repeating this operation in the same manner as moving the tape, mirror image characters and symbols in the inverted form as shown in FIG. 2B are printed on the surface of the lettering tape 5. The lettering tape to which the mirror image characters and symbols are transferred in this manner is separated from the lettering tape 5 of the main body. Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the surface of the lettering tape 5 on which the ink 10a is printed is transferred to the transfer target 16
If it is pressed against the surface and rubbed from above, characters or symbols of the normal image will be transferred to the surface 16 of the transferred object.

Further, in the simple lettering tape making machine according to the present invention,
Actually, mode switching at the time of inputting characters or symbols, shift / size designation of characters or symbols, Kana-Kanji conversion, insertion / deletion of characters / symbols when editing documents, display unit 3 Various functions such as cursor movement on the screen are provided, and some operation keys for that purpose are provided as shown in FIG. These various functions are substantially the same as those of a generally known typewriter or word processor.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in the above embodiments, the simple lettering tape making machine according to the present invention has an input unit for inputting characters and symbols, and character data such as characters and symbols input from the input unit. And a printing unit for printing, on the lettering tape surface, a mirror image based on the character data stored in the memory unit, in which the shapes of characters, symbols, etc. indicated by the character data are inverted, through the ink ribbon. Since it is equipped with, you can easily edit words, phrases, etc., and you can easily make lettering tape of the desired edited letters and symbols, words, phrases, or simple sentences. There is an advantage that the work of transferring a title or the like to an index card or a label can be performed simply and efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is an external perspective view, Fig. 2 is a sectional view, Fig. 3 is an electric control block diagram of this simple lettering tape making machine, and Fig. 4 is lettering. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a printing operation of characters and symbols on the tape surface, and FIG. 5 is a usage state diagram of a lettering tape on which mirror image characters are printed. 2,2 are input keys, 5 is lettering tape, 8 is platen, 9 is print head, 10 is ink ribbon, 14 is CPU, 15
Is a memory unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting characters and symbols, a memory unit for storing character data such as characters and symbols input from the input unit, and a memory unit for storing character data based on the character data stored in the memory unit. A simple lettering tape manufacturing machine comprising: a printing unit that prints a mirror image, which is the reverse of the shape of characters and symbols indicated by character data, on the lettering tape surface via an ink ribbon.